Lukman Abdulrauf is an Associate professor in the Department of Public Law at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. He is currently a Senior External Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study, Freiburg University, Germany. Lukman also holds an honorary research fellowship at the School of Law, University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, and is a Research Fellow at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
He earned his LL.B in Civil Law from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and his LL.M from the University of Ilorin. Dr. Abdulrauf completed his LL.D. at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa, with a thesis on digital rights and data protection in Africa.
An alumnus of Stanford University’s Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), he is also a recipient of the Iso Lomso Fellowship from the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch.
Previously, Dr. Abdulrauf served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Constitutional Law, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
- Dr. Abdulrauf specializes in;
- Digital rights
- Digital constitutionalism, and
- Data protection law
With extensive publications in these fields, He is the co-editor of “Data Privacy Law in Africa: Emerging Perspectives” (PULP, 2024) and is currently working on a monograph titled “Digital Constitutionalism in Africa” (Routledge). Dr Abdulrauf is an investigator for a number of foreign and local research grants.
He is a board member and Director, Programmes, Collaboration & Advocacy of the Constitutional and Democratic Justice Initiative, an NGO aimed at using the principles of constitutional and democratic justice to encourage the government and others to address developmental issues and the challenges posed to constitutionalism and real democracy as a result of poverty, injustice, corruption, inequality and equity.
